MIDAS: Multimodal Interactive Digital-humAn Synthesis via Real-time Autoregressive Video Generation
This work addresses the problem of building practical interactive digital human systems for applications like conversation and synthesis, though it appears incremental by adapting existing LLMs and diffusion methods.
The paper tackles the challenge of real-time interactive digital human video generation by introducing an autoregressive framework with multimodal control, achieving low-latency extrapolation and fine-grained controllability.
Recently, interactive digital human video generation has attracted widespread attention and achieved remarkable progress. However, building such a practical system that can interact with diverse input signals in real time remains challenging to existing methods, which often struggle with heavy computational cost and limited controllability. In this work, we introduce an autoregressive video generation framework that enables interactive multimodal control and low-latency extrapolation in a streaming manner. With minimal modifications to a standard large language model (LLM), our framework accepts multimodal condition encodings including audio, pose, and text, and outputs spatially and semantically coherent representations to guide the denoising process of a diffusion head. To support this, we construct a large-scale dialogue dataset of approximately 20,000 hours from multiple sources, providing rich conversational scenarios for training. We further introduce a deep compression autoencoder with up to 64$\times$ reduction ratio, which effectively alleviates the long-horizon inference burden of the autoregressive model. Extensive experiments on duplex conversation, multilingual human synthesis, and interactive world model highlight the advantages of our approach in low latency, high efficiency, and fine-grained multimodal controllability.